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GILBANKS (G. E.)
Some Records of a Cistercian Abbey: Holm Cultram, Cumberland. With illustrations by Major F. H. Oldfield, R.E., and others.
First edition, 8vo (225 x 145 mm), xiv, 157, [1]pp., with half-title, presentation inscription from the author on front fly-leaf, frontispiece, 17 plates, original cloth, gilt, hinges slightly rubbed, top edges gilt, others uncut.
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[WHITWORTH (Sir Charles)]
A Collection of the Supplies, and Ways and Means, from the Revolution to the Present Time. By a Member of Parliament.
First Edition, 8vo (170 x 100 mm), [4], 183, [1] pp., "From the Editor" written in ink on fly-leaf, folding table, turn-ins offset, contemporary calf, upper cover detached, spine rubbed, label. Provenance: Frank Herbert Muir, CBE was an English comedy writer, radio and television personality, with his signature in pencil on front paste-down. Kress, 6148; Goldsmith, 9909; Higgs, 2966; Roscoe, A624 (1).
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GLEW (Edward Lees)
History of the Borough and Foreign of Walsall, in the County of Stafford: with an interesting Tour of Inspection, including a faithful Report of the Government Inquiry into the Charities at the Guildhall, Walsall, June, 1855, before Thomas Hare, compared with the former inquisition, A.D. 1823.
First edition, 8vo (215 x 140 mm), iv, 222, [4], [8, ads]pp., original cloth, lightly stained, gilt lettering on spine lightly faded, a good copy. Simms, p.190.
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CHAPMAN (John Alexander)
Lyrical Poems.
First edition, 8vo (200 x 135mm), [8], 168pp., 2pp. list of subscribers (accounts for c.140 copies), a few Ms. corrections appear to be authorial, some occasional foxing, original cloth, uncut.
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[CLAYTON (John)]
Friendly Advice to my Poor Neighbours; in a Series of Cottage Tales and Dialogues. By a Member of the Church of England.
12mo (182 X 110mm), [8], 248pp., with half-title, last 2 leaves spotted, contemporary half calf, slightly rubbed, spine lettered and ruled in gilt direct.
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BRERETON (Frederick) Compiler.
An Anthology of War Poems. Introduction by Edmund Blunden.
First edition, 8vo (240 x 150mm), limited to 200 numbered copies (no. 81) signed by Edmund Blunden, 191, [1]pp., orig. cloth-backed boards, morocco title label lettered in gilt, spine slightly soiled, unopened, uncut, a very good copy.
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NOVEL. KETT (Henry)
Emily, A Moral Tale. Including Letters from a Father to his Daughter, upon the most important Subjects.
First edition, 2 vols., (210 x 135mm), vii, [1], 327, [1]; [2], 328pp., contemporary cloth, faded, uncut, printed paper label on vol.1, a nice copy. Provenance: With the signature of Maria Frances Montgomery on titles, each volume with the bookplate of M. F. Montgomery, Convoy [Co. Donegal], Garside, Raven, and Sch?werling, 11,1809:37; Block, p.128.
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[MARKHAM (Revd. Ralph)]
An Essay on Immorality [in verse]. In Three Parts.
First edition, 4to (255 x 205mm), [12], 56pp., a near contemporary note on half-title attributes the work to "ye late Revd. Ralph Markham, Brother to Dr. Markham, late Rector of St. Mary's Whitechapel.", engraved frontispiece by Francis Hayman, lightly off-set on title, modern paper wrappers, a good copy. Part 1. Considers "An Enquiry into the Origin of Evil.... [and] the inherent Corruption of human Nature.... a more particular View of the common Vices; beginning with the ungenerous Gratification of lawless Love, in the Ruin of innocent Girls." Part 11. gives "A Sketch of the Gamester. [and] A drunken Evening particularly enlarg'd upon. A Picture of its odious Conclusion:... [and] the proper Use of Liquor." ESTC lists this as anonymous.
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[HUTTON (William)]
A Concise History of Birmingham, containing an Account of its Ancient State, and the Latest Improvements: together with a Statement of the Arrival and Departure of the Mails, Stage Coaches, Waggons, &c. &c. The whole forming a Complete Guide to the Inhabitant and Stranger.
Fourth edition, 12mo (164 x 100mm), xviii, 78pp., folding plan of Birmingham, library stamp on title, blind stamp on first 6 leaves, 3 engraved plates, contemporary calf, upper cover detached.
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JESSE (Edward)
A Summer's Day at Windsor, and a Visit to Eton.
First edition, 8vo (178 x 110mm) viii, 151, [1] + 4pp., of adverts, folding frontispiece, additional title page, 8 engraved plates, orig. embossed cloth, gilt, head of spine repaired with overlaid cloth, foot frayed.
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NOVEL. ROBERTS (Mrs [Margaret])
Duty, A Novel, by the late Mrs Roberts. Author of "Rose and Emily:" Interspersed with Poetry and Preceded by a Character of the Author by Mrs. Opie.
First edition, 3 vols., 8vo (171 x 95mm), 212; [2], 199, [1]; [2], 180pp., piece torn from the upper margin of leaf G1 in volume one with partial loss of text to five lines (missing text supplied in facsimile on a loosely inserted leaf), cont. burgundy quarter calf, marbled boards, flat spines, lettered direct ruled in gilt with decorative tool to each compartment, a very nice set. First edition of this posthumously published novel by Margaret Roberts (d. 1813), with a character sketch by her friend and literary executor Amelia Opies, who described Roberts as hereslf a model of duty as a wife and as a schoolmistress. An interesting artefact depicting the early 19th century conventions of womanhood. Roberts was the author of Moral Views; or, the Telescope for Children (1804), and Rose and Emily, or Sketches of Youth (1812). Garside, Raven & Schw?erling, 1814: 47.
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ANDREWS (William) Editor.
Bygone Leicestershire.
First edition, 8vo (220 x 140mm), [8], 264 + 12pp., of publisher's ads, one of 750 numbered copies, frontis., illustrs., orig. blue cloth, gilt, a little soiled and stained. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of George Francis Farnham to front paste-down.
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[BRANDON (Isaac)]
Fragments in the manner of Sterne.
First edition, small 8vo (159 x 114 mm), [6], 139, [1] pp., with half-title, 3 engraved plates, nineteenth century cloth, spine gilt, a good copy. Attributed to Isaac Brandon but possibly written by William Combe, author of "Doctor Syntax", who undoubtedly knew Stern in France and in England.
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LAMB (Charles)
The Last Essays of Elia. Edited with an Introduction by Edmund Blunden and notes by Frederick Page.
8vo (186 x 125 mm), xix, [1], 234 pp., with half-title, presentation inscription on fly-leaf "Douglas Grant from his constantly devoted friend Edmund Blunden. [F. Page edited Notes & Queries until age stopped him.] 26 June 1966", original cloth, gilt lettering on spine.
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DOBSON (William) and HARLAND (John)
A History of Preston Guild; the Ordinances of various Guilds Merchant, the Custumal of Preston, the Charters of the Borough, the incorporated Companies, List of Mayors from 1327, &c. &c.
First edition, (180 x 105 mm), [3], 4-115, [1] pp., library stamp on title and one or two blank margins, corders a little dog-eared, original printed wrappers lightly chipped, stitched as issued.
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[ALLEN (Thomas)]
The History of the County of Lincoln. From the earliest period to the present time..... Assisted by several Gentleman residing in the County,..... Embellished by numerous Views.
2 vols., 4to (275 x 220 mm), [16], 358; [2], 360, [10] pp., ownership inscription of "Rich. J. Poppleton, October 5th 1855." on title, 2 engraved maps (one large folding), 40 engraved plates all with tissue guards, 4pp. list of subscribers, some light staining and spotting in places, original cloth, rebacked with the original spines laid down. Corns, Bibliotheca Lincolniensis, p. 3; Short, 47.
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BLAGG (Thomas M.)
The Parish Registers of Shelton, in the County of Nottingham, for the Years 1595-1812, with Appendices.
First edition, 8vo (228 x 145 mm), viii, 75, [1]pp., one of 54 copies printed, small neat stamp to front paste-down, quarter vellum, lightly soiled.
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[THOMPSON (Thomas)]
Ocellum Promontorium; or, Short Observations on the Ancient State of Holderness.
First edition, 8vo (227 x 137 mm), 117, [1]pp., folding engraved map, 2 engraved plates, some intermittent foxing, orig. pale blue paper wrappers, lacks paper spine.
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BEVINGTON (Michael)
Stowe: A Guide to the House.
4to (245 x 185 mm), 82pp., illustrs., orig. decorated covers.
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MURRAY (John)
Handbook for Travellers in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Staffordshire.
Second edition, revised, lii, 213, [1] + 66pp., of adverts, folding map in pocket at rear, orig. red cloth, lettered in gilt.
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HOLME (Rev. James)
Mount Grace Abbey: A Poem. Dedicated, by Permission, to Her Majesty the Queen Dowager.
First edition, [8], 194 pp., original cloth, slightly faded, gilt lettering on spine.
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JACKSON (Charles James)
An Illustrated History of English Plate Ecclesiastical and Secular in Which the Development of Form and Decoration in the Silver and Gold Work of the British Isles from the Earliest Known Examples to the Latest of the Georgian Period.
First edition, 2 vols., folio, xxxviii, [ii], 466; [iv], 467-1085pp., with coloured frontispiece, 76 photogravure plates and 1,500 other illustrations, cont. half green morocco, gilt, a very good set.
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WALTER (J. Conway)
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood; Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with other matters.
First edition, tall 12mo (190 x 90 mm), 263pp., orig. cloth, lettered in gilt on upper cover, a very good copy. Provenance: Presentation inscription "To Mrs Hewitt from Andrew Fairleigh, Hastings 1925"; armorial bookplate of C. Vipar; N. S. Harding, All SS Vicarage, Lincoln.
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SHEAHAN (James Joseph)
History and Topography of Buckinghamshire Comprising a General Survey of the County, Preceded by an Epitome of the Early History of Great Britain.
First edition, xiii, [1], 940pp., inner hinges broken, several pages standing proud, spine of text block broken, orig. blue cloth, head of spine frayed, a good working copy.
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PEARS (Steuart A.)
The Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney and Hubert Languet, Now First Collected and Translated from the Latin with Notes and a Memoir of Sidney.
First edition, 8vo, 240pp., + adverts, frontis., offset onto title, foxing to prelims and adverts as usual, orig. cloth, printed paper title label to spine. Provenance: With the Munden House armorial bookplate, Holland, Henry Thurstan, first Viscount Knutsford (1825?1914), politician.
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[MIDDLETON (Thomas Fanshaw)]
The Country Spectator.
First edition, 8vo (205 x 120 mm), [8], 266pp., the 8 preliminary pages were issued with the final number and are often missing, several neat circular library stamps, numbers in ink to verso of title page, endpapers brown from turn-ins, cont. half calf, rubbed, upper cover detached. A complete run of thirty-three weekly numbers, edited and largely written by Thomas Middleton, published October 1792 - May 1793, bound up with an additional half-title, general title, dedication leaf and table of contents. Middleton was Coleridge's protector and mentor at Christ's Hospital and later at Jesus College, Cambridge.
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[Davis (Ellis James)]
Etymonia.
First edition, 8vo (195 x 135 mm), [6], 258 + 16pp., of publishers adverts, with half-title, title and prelims spotted, minor waterstain to lower margins, front endpapers stained, orig. decorated cloth, neatly rebacked with orig. spine laid-down, lower portion of upper cover lightly stained. A rare Utopian novel. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of R. C. Hyde; Bookplate of Max Salomon.
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PIERCY (John S.)
The History of Retford, in the County of Nottingham, Comprising its Ancient, Progressive, and Modern State, with an Historical and Topographical Account of the Villages of West Retford, Babworth, Ordsall, Grove, and Clarborough.
First edition, 8vo (200 x 125 mm), viii, 246, [6]pp., frontispiece and 8 plates (one foxed), a very good ex-library copy with stamps, cont. half calf, marbled boards, joint cracked, red morocco spine label, uncut. A rare topographical work.
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WILLIAMS (Iolo A.)
Seven XVIIIth Century Bibliographies. John Armstrong, William Shenstone, Mark Akenside, William Collins, Oliver Goldsmith, Charles Churchill, Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan.
First edition, 244pp., SIGNED WITH A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE BY THE AUTHOR, orig. cloth, uncut, d.w. torn and defective. Chronological descriptions of first editions for each author, with bibliographical notes.
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PLOT (Robert)
The Natural History of Stafford-Shire. 1686.
Folio (360 x 250 mm), 450,10pp., numerous illustrs., and maps, orig. cloth, gilt.
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MARTIN (Charles Wykeham)
The History and Description of Leeds Castle, Kent.
First edition, folio (380 x 270 mm), x, 210, [2], xxxvipp., title in red and black, 8 mounted albumen prints (145 x 200 mm) by John Cruttenden of Maidstone, images faded at edges, lithographic plan hand-coloured outline, double-page pedigree and double-page facsimile letter, fore-edge of frontispiece and title page neatly strengthened, neat repair to inner margin of leaf G3 marbled endpapers, attractively rebound in the style of a late eighteen-century panelled calf binding, gilt, with red and black morocco labels to spine. Leeds Castle was the country seat of Charles Wykeham Martin (1801-1870), an English Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons in three periods between 1841 and 1870. Cruttenden had exhibited two of his images of Leeds Castle at the Photographic Society's 1861 Exhibition. Gernsheim, 458.
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ELLER (The Rev. Irwin)
The History of Belvoir Castle, from the Norman Conquest to the Nineteenth Century: accompanied by a Description of the present Castle, and critical notices of the Paintings, Tapestry, Statuary, &c, with which it is enriched.
First edition, small 4to (275 x 180 mm), viii, 410pp., large paper copy, engraved frontispiece, engraved and printed titles, folding pedigree, 3 plans, 2 engraved plates, front inner hinge shaken, orig. green embossed cloth, gilt, head of spine slightly frayed otherwise a nice copy.
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COX (J. Charles)
Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire. Vol. I. The Hundred of Scarsdale. Vol. II. The Hundreds of the High Peak and Wirksworth. Vol. III. The Hundreds of Appletree and Repton and Gresley. Vol. IV. The Hundred of Morleston and Litchurch: and general supplement. Illustrated with heliotypes from photographs by R. Keene, and numerous other plates.
First edition, 4 vols., royal 8vo ( 250 x 155 mm), xxv, [1], 495, [1]; xxi, [3], 612; xiii, [1], 556; xxiii, [3], 570 pp., half-titles and frontispieces in each volume, 45 fine heliotype photographic plates, marbled endpapers, finely bound in nineteenth-century red morocco, five raised bands, four compartments gilt tooled extra, the other two gilt lettered direct, some minor rubbing, uncut, t.e.g. a very handsome set. Provenance: With the bookplate of Baroness Burton of Rangemore Hall to each volume; Bookseller's invoice (Frank Woore of Derby) made out on April 11th 1950 with Mr. C. Brown being the recipient. Ormerod, p. 9.
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JUKES (J. Beete)
Additional Notes of the Grouping of the Rocks of North Devon and West Somerset: With a Map and Section. Preceded by an Introductory Statement.
First edition, 8vo (210 x 140 mm), xxii, [2], 15, [1]pp., with a hand-coloured map of North Devon & West Somerset and another of section, with a couple of corrects to the text, recent quarter calf, marbled boards, morocco title label to spine.
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MANBY (G. W.)
Fugitive Sketches of the History and Natural Beauties of Clifton, Hot-Wells, and Vicinity.
First edition, royal 8vo (235 x 145 mm), [2], vi, [5]-84, [2]pp., with half-title and terminal advert/errata leaf, aquatint frontispiece (lightly offset) and a further 17 engraved and aquatint plates, some light unobtrusive water-staining to prelims, nineteenth-century red quarter morocco, marbled boards, uncut. Provenance: Francis Frederick Fox bookplate.
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BURTON (George H.) Editor.
Old Lincolnshire: An Antiquarian Magazine. Volume I. From March, 1883, to June, 1885 [all published].
First edition, volume one [all published], 4to (260 x 190 mm), [6], 256pp., 10 plates (of which 6 are actual photographs), 3 illustrs., in the text, orig. red calf calf, marbled boards, a little rubbed. This rare Lincolnshire periodical ran to just this single volume and is illustrated with 6 tipped-in Woodbury photographs, two additional early photographs of the 'Lincoln Imp' pasted on to front-free endpaper. Corns, p. 8.
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[WARTON (Thomas) Editor]
The Oxford Sausage; or Select Poetical Pieces, written by the most Celebrated Wits of the University of Oxford.
A new edition, 4to (290 x 190 mm), 224pp., LARGE PAPER COPY, woodcut frontispiece (reattached with gutter margin lightly stained), numerous woodcuts and tailpieces by Thomas Bewick, occasional spotting, orig. boards, old reback, joints cracked and some wear, uncut.
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KEYNES (Geoffrey)
Bibliography of William Hazlitt.
First Edition, limited to 750 copies, frontis., portrait, facsimiles throughout, orig. boards, uncut.
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PORTCHESTER CASTLE.
History of Portchester Castle.
12mo (175 x 110 mm), 34pp., ex-library with usual stamps and labels, later quarter calf. This little publication appears to be unknown, no copies located in Copac or OCLC.
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LOWENDAHL (Bjorn)
Sino-Western Relations, Conceptions of China, Cultural Influences and the Development of Sinology. Disclosed in Western Printed Books 1477-1877. Supplement.
4to, xxiv, 207pp., numerous coloured and black and white plates, orig. cloth, d.w, in a cloth box. Supplement to the important reference work on Western books on China published between 1477 and 1877: An extensively annotated catalogue in English of books on China in Western languages (1550 entries, each with a minute collation), arranged chronologically. With an introduction, references, indices, and a preface by Professor Han Qi of the Institute for the History of Natural Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The L?wendahl - von der Burg collection is a most important assembly of Western books on China, written by sinologues, missionaries, travellers, merchants and other authors. The collection also includes works by Chinese authors translated and edited by Western scholars. The contents cover Chinese history, language, philosophy, religion, society, science, medicine, missionary work and the "Chinese Rites" controversy, trade (incl. treaties with foreign powers), Hong Kong, foreign aggression, and travel accounts.
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CROSS (Frances W.) & HALL (John R.)
Rambles Round Old Canterbury.
First edition, small 4to (220 x 170 mm), 148, 12pp., illustrs., orig. cloth, gilt.
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LOWENDAHL (Bjorn)
Sino-Western Relations, Conceptions of China, Cultural Influences and the Development of Sinology. Disclosed in Western Printed Books 1477-1877. Supplement.
4to, xxiv, 207pp., numerous coloured and black and white plates, orig. cloth, d.w, in a cloth box. Supplement to the important reference work on Western books on China published between 1477 and 1877: An extensively annotated catalogue in English of books on China in Western languages (1550 entries, each with a minute collation), arranged chronologically. With an introduction, references, indices, and a preface by Professor Han Qi of the Institute for the History of Natural Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The L?wendahl - von der Burg collection is a most important assembly of Western books on China, written by sinologues, missionaries, travellers, merchants and other authors. The collection also includes works by Chinese authors translated and edited by Western scholars. The contents cover Chinese history, language, philosophy, religion, society, science, medicine, missionary work and the "Chinese Rites" controversy, trade (incl. treaties with foreign powers), Hong Kong, foreign aggression, and travel accounts.
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HAZLITT (W. Carew)
Hand-Book to the Popular, Poetical, and Dramatic Literature of Great Britain, from the Invention of Printing to the Restoration. [Supplemented by:] Bibliographical Collections and Notes on Early English Literature, 1474-1700.
8 Vols., (complete set), orig. cloth. Comprising many thousands of titles, with an exhaustive general index compiled by J. G. Gray.
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[LOVE (Benjamin)]
Manchester as it is: or, notices of the Institutions, Manufactures, Commerce, Railways, etc. of the Metropolis of Manufactures: Interspersed with Much Valuable Information Useful for the Resident and Stranger.
First edition, 12mo (155 x 100 mm), 244 p., engraved frontis., and 11 plates (lightly foxed), double-page engraved map, orig. cloth, gilt, a very good copy.
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[KING (William)
The Dreamer.
First edition, 8vo, [4], 240, xxviii, 14, [2]pp., with the 14 page 'Advertisement by the Bookseller', followed by 2 lines of errata, publisher's advertisement leaf at end, no front fly-leaf, with the bookplate of Bath Public Reference Library, some unobtrusive blind stamps on a few blank margins, contemporary calf, hinges beginning to crack, but a good clean copy. First appearance in print of Jonathan Swift's poem The Answer. Swift's poem The Answer [to Paulus, by Mr. L-----y] was first printed here on pp. 81-9 as a foot note, introduced as follows: 'This Passage in my Dream may be illustrated by a poem of Dr. Swift's, which hath been communicated to me by a particular friend.' Teerink, 1623; Rothschild, 1302.
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GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Black's Guide to Gloucestershire. With a Map of the County, Plans of Bristol and Cheltenham, and Chart of Bristol and Birmingham Railway.
Small 8vo (170 x 110 mm), viii, 148 + 72pp., of adverts, 2 folding maps, orig. green cloth, gilt, label to spine.
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WHITE (Francis)
History, Gazetteer and Directory of the County of Derby, with the town of Burton-upon-Trent Staffordshire comprising a general survey of the county with separate historical statistical topographical commercial agricultural and mineral descriptions of all the towns, parishes, chapelries, townships, villages, hamlets, manors and extra-parochial liberties... and a variety of other commercial and statistical information to which is added directory of the Borough of Sheffield Yorkshire.
Large 8vo (220 x 140 mm), xvi, 996pp., without the map, a couple of gatherings standing proud, terminal leaf loose, cont. half calf, rubbed and worn.
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PENNINGTON (Rooke)
Notes on the Barrows and Bone-Caves of Derbyshire. With an Account of a Descent into Elden Hole.
First edition, 8vo (225 x 145 mm), [8], 124 + 36pp., of adverts, bookplate removed from front endpaper, orig. brick red pebbled cloth, spine lettered in gilt.
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ISLE OF WIGHT.
Black's Guide to the Isle of Wight.
Ninth edition, 12mo (170 x 110 mm), xii, 103 + 108pp., of adverts, frontis., folding map, illustrs., orig. green cloth, gilt.
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WINDSOR.
The Windsor Guide: containing a Description of The Town and Castle, the present state of the paintings and curiosities in the Royal Apartments...
A new edition, corrected and much enlarged, 12mo (170 x 105 mm), 183, [5]pp., orig. cloth-backed boards.
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